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julio_diniz_perdigao
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Upload to a specific file id

Hi! Google Drive has an method that we can create the file ID first, before start upload.   Does Dropbox has somenthing similar?   My point is, to get file metadata, specially file size, af...
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Здравко's avatar
Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
2 years ago
julio_diniz_perdigao wrote:

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But I am affraid in step 3, some connections problem and not be able to pass the file ID to my back-end.

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Hi julio_diniz_perdigao,

You don't need to pass the id in step 3. Tracing the changes in target directory would give you exact moment of file upload and its id as soon as upload finishes without additional communication between client and server side. 😉

Hope this helps.

julio_diniz_perdigao's avatar
julio_diniz_perdigao
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Hi Здравко,

yes, but this will take time if target directory has many files. Anyway, a discovered that is possible to get file metada passing the full path instead of the file ID.

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